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Unnamed BabySSA national name archive · 1880–2025

Cary

Recorded for both sexesBaby Boomer

2025 rank

#3,676

down −143 places

2025 births

30

down −2 births

All-time births

24,504

0% of them in 2025

More common than

98%

of all archived spellings recorded for boys, by lifetime births for that sex
Peak year
1957
788 births
Best rank
#264
in 1966
First recorded
1880
#429 that year
Last recorded
2025
still in the data
Average birth year
1962
weighted by recorded births
Years recorded
146 of 146
unbroken

Top five years

  1. 1957788#268Peak
  2. 1962784#275
  3. 1959779#283
  4. 1963764#279
  5. 1966763#264

Rank over time

Inverted scale — nearer the top is more popular. Unrecorded years are left blank, not drawn as zero.

Best rank #264 in 1966 · peak births 788 in 1957

Boys and girls

Births per year for each sex, on one shared scale. The girls' series is dashed.

● 82% boys■ 18% girls

24,504 boys · 5,323 girls, all time

Births by decade

Where the name's whole run sits, with the best and worst rank it held in each decade

Trajectory by decade

Where Cary has ranked, decade by decade

The band spans each decade's best and worst rank; the line follows its best.